BEST Homemade Hot Chocolate Recipe with real chocolate

How to make the Best Homemade Hot Chocolate Recipe with Real Chocolate

A hot chocolate recipe should be thick, rich with a velvet-like creamy texture that explodes your taste buds into an irresistible chocolate avalanche. This simple, easy and effortless hot chocolate drink uses real chocolate in the mix that will have you begging for more. Serve hot topped with marshmallows or cold with a scoop of ice cream.

How to make the Best Homemade Hot Chocolate Recipe aka Hot Chocolate Drink

Winter is here and we are already in the hot chocolate mood here. It’s been raining constantly for three days so the kids are really upset about not being able to play out. Aadi is a sports person who is constantly with his football or basketball so this weather is not his friend. Since he’s still small and does not understand what to do, all day goes saying – mama when will it stop raining? Mama tells the clouds to go away!!

The best thing about being indoors, of course, is hot soups and hot chocolate! Nothing beats a warm bowl of soup and some fresh bread for dinner. Top it with a cup of luxurious homemade hot chocolate drink under a warm blanket with your favorite movie on.

How to make the BEST homemade Hot Chocolate Recipe – aka Hot Chocolate Drink

What’s our Pajama party?

We call that a Pajama Party in our home. Pajama party was invented by my mom when we were kids. Being a single mom she really didn’t have enough money to entertain us so she’d often let us have pajama parties at home. What is a pajama party? Honestly, just means that we sleep in the living room on blankets instead of in our bed in the bedroom. She’s put a huge blanket in front of the TV, make us our favorite snacks such as Popcorn, cookies and even dry fruits. Of course the star of the pajama party was always the hot chocolate topped with marshmallows!!

I tell you nothing beats homemade and this hot chocolate is no different. Can you see how thick, creamy and velvety that drink is? It’s the result of using real chocolate in our cocoa mix.

Now, I do these pajama parties with the kids whenever possible or when we need to take care of boredom. It’s a fun way to get the whole family under one blanket and snuggle in each other’s arms really.

How to make the BEST homemade Hot Chocolate Recipe aka Hot Chocolate Drink

Wouldn’t that make a wonderful Valentine’s Day Drink or perhaps a warm treat to mom on mothers day?

Often we try to find expensive ways to make things special but the truth is that often the simplest of things give us pleasure. I remember making mom hot chocolate in her later years when we’d go visit her and it would bring back memories of our childhood.

Even when we were all grown up sitting as a family with hot chocolate in our hands would make us feel all warm and cozy inside. The truth is it’s not the hot chocolate but the memories that we created around that hot chocolate that makes these things special – right?

How to make the BEST homemade Hot Chocolate recipe with Real Chocolate Inside.

Hot chocolate mix – As I said above this recipe uses my hot cocoa mix. You can use a store-bought cocoa mix but that usually has only cocoa powder, milk powder, and some sugar.
My hot chocolate mix has real chocolate in there!! Yup! That’s what makes this so different and so luxurious. If you’ve had hot chocolate made with only cocoa powder before you know its’ just chocolate flavored hot milk, right? Well, this one is not!
The best part!! You make the cocoa mix just once. It’s not small or too big a recipe either. One batch will make only about 10 servings but I promise you to wish it was a bigger batch because it does get used up really fast in our home.

Milk – Here’s the fun part!! You can make this in many different ways and customize it.
On most days we use fresh dairy milk of course.
For a vegan version use almond milk or Soy milk. We are not vegan but I often use almond milk to reduce the amount of lactose in our diet.
If you like it thicker and more creamy – use coconut milk! Yup coconut and chocolate make a heavenly combination. It’s definitely richer and thicker so add water to bring to consistency.

Spices – I love adding a pinch of cinnamon to my hot chocolate on a regular day. In fall I love adding some pumpkin spice or gingerbread spice mix. Another wonderful spice to add a touch of warmth to your hot chocolate is garam masala. A delicious blend of spices very similar to these fall spice mixes.

How to make the BEST homemade Hot Chocolate recipe Drink with Real Chocolate Inside.

How to make the best Homemade Hot Chocolate Recipe – Hot Chocolate Drink

The BEST Homemade Hot Chocolate Mix with Real Chocolate

A hot chocolate recipe should be thick, rich with a velvet-like creamy texture that explodes your taste buds into an irresistible chocolate avalanche. This simple, easy and effortless hot chocolate drink uses real chocolate in the mix that will have you begging for more. Serve hot topped with marshmallows or cold with a scoop of ice cream.

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About Veena Azmanov

Veena Azmanov is a professional Cake Artist and Food Enthusiast. The Founder, Editor, Creator and Recipe Developer on this blog. Follow her cake and food journey on this blog as she explores new and classic recipes with a twist.

Wow.. Goergeous cake… Your family is so lucky to live around such talent. I hate baking but now am trying to start so my kids can have some nice cakes and cookies. Love you blog. I've seen all your you tube videos. You explain very well. Thanks

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